The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 87
... Hipparchus and Ptolemy has been given in the article ASTRONOMY . Their contribu- tions to pure mathematics have not yet been noticed in the present work . Of these the chief is the foundation of trigonometry , plane and spherical ...
... Hipparchus and Ptolemy has been given in the article ASTRONOMY . Their contribu- tions to pure mathematics have not yet been noticed in the present work . Of these the chief is the foundation of trigonometry , plane and spherical ...
Page 88
... Hipparchus had already given the doctrine of chords inscribed in a circle in twelve books , and that Menelaus had done the same in six books , but , he continues , every one must be astonished at the ease with which Ptolemy , by means ...
... Hipparchus had already given the doctrine of chords inscribed in a circle in twelve books , and that Menelaus had done the same in six books , but , he continues , every one must be astonished at the ease with which Ptolemy , by means ...
Page 89
... Hipparchus had made at Rhodes many observa- of the seven climates subsequently described . Delambre suspects a fourth reason , which he thinks is the true one , that Ptolemy had taken his examples from the works of Hipparchus , who ...
... Hipparchus had made at Rhodes many observa- of the seven climates subsequently described . Delambre suspects a fourth reason , which he thinks is the true one , that Ptolemy had taken his examples from the works of Hipparchus , who ...
Page 90
... Hipparchus ; this is all that is certain . " It has been remarked that Ptolemy , living at Alexandria , at which city the altitude of the pole is 5 ° less than at Rhodes , where Hipparchus observed , could have seen stars which are not ...
... Hipparchus ; this is all that is certain . " It has been remarked that Ptolemy , living at Alexandria , at which city the altitude of the pole is 5 ° less than at Rhodes , where Hipparchus observed , could have seen stars which are not ...
Page 91
... Hipparchus , & c . Ptolemy , in order to make his Parapegma useful to all the Greeks scattered over the enlightened world of his time , gives the apparitions of the stars not for one parallel only but for each of the five parallels ...
... Hipparchus , & c . Ptolemy , in order to make his Parapegma useful to all the Greeks scattered over the enlightened world of his time , gives the apparitions of the stars not for one parallel only but for each of the five parallels ...
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